World War (1914-1918)

Cartoon: map of the Balkan Peninsula, the coast of Turkey, the Dardanelles.

Map of military operations of the offensives of the German army of Field Marshal A. von Mackensen, the formation of the Salonika Front.

German soldiers at a halt, an officer looks through binoculars, a horse grazing nearby.

Map of the European theater of military operations.

Shots from a feature film: German soldiers dig trenches, an explosion, German soldiers run to attack, lie down.

A shot from a French heavy gun.

French soldiers fire a machine gun from cover.

German soldiers throw grenades.

A German soldier dies in a trench.

French soldiers run to attack.

Double exposure: gun barrels, German soldiers lie down in a trench.

Barracks.

German soldiers resting.

A soldier gives a wounded comrade water from a flask.

Double exposure: German soldiers charging, a gunshot.

French prisoners of war walking along the road, carrying a wounded man on a stretcher.

Cartoon: map of military operations – the North Sea, caption: BLOCKADE. Stills from a feature film: a man writing at a desk.

Portrait: German industrialist Walter Rathenau.

Double exposure: German soldiers firing guns, machine guns, explosions, military production, workers in a workshop.

Stills from a feature film: a chemical laboratory.

A scientist conducting experiments.

A crowd of children stripped to the waist.

Double exposure: a scary man, symbolizing hunger, appears above the crowd of children.

Germany.

City street, passers-by.

German medics load a wounded man into a carriage of a hospital train.

Platforms covered with tarpaulin with the emblem of the Red Cross pass along a narrow-gauge railway.

German soldiers on a railway platform.

Stills from a feature film: a kitchen in a house, a mother washing the floor, a girl setting the table, a toddler playing with blocks.

A woman comes in.

The mother butters the bread.

Close-up: a hand with a cigar, Hennessy cognac on the table, a shot glass.

The hand opens a box of Caesar-Emperor cigars, writes in a notebook.

Double exposure: explosions, gunshots, German infantry passing by.

Stills from a feature film: a woman sewing on a Singer sewing machine.

Chronicle: an armed merchant ship at sea.

Animation: the North Sea, the coast of Germany, the inscription: BLOCKADE.

Cartoon: map of military operations, Russian front, military operations in the area of the Przemysl fortress.

German soldier digs a trench surrounded by barbed wire.

Cartoon: map of military operations, Asia Minor theater of military operations in the area of the Dardanelles Strait.

Turkish camel cavalry.

Mountainous terrain.

Camels drink from a mountain river.

Cartoon, caption: Carpathians.

Winter mountain landscape.

Austro-Hungarian soldiers, wearing snowshoes, pull a sled loaded with military equipment up the mountain.

Austro-Hungarian artillerymen pull a gun up the mountain.

Austrian mountain gun, shots.

Cartoon, caption: Przemysl, Ivangorod, Warsaw, Grodno, Kovno.

Chronicle: German soldiers walk along a ditch along a village street, a German horse-drawn convoy passes by: carts covered with tarpaulin.

Cartoon: The North Sea, the coast of Germany, a map of military operations, double exposure: smoke, German soldiers marching, a map of the European theater of military operations.

Germany.

City.

Factory checkpoint.

Workers exiting the checkpoint.

Military production, view of the factory, view from above.

Aircraft factory, women at work.

Women exiting the factory checkpoint.

Stills from the feature film: men in civilian clothes and soldiers reading newspapers on a stand.

The newspaper "Berliner local-Anzeiger".

Stills from the feature film: German soldiers in a trench, firing rifles, explosion, smoke, a German soldier falls, struck down by a shell fragment.

Factory workshop.

A woman at a machine, her daughter comes to her, brings a box, in the box is a notice of her husband's death and an award - an Iron Cross.

The woman reads the letter, hugs her daughter.

Double exposure: technical units of the machine.

German, English subtitles.

Excerpts from the film "Denkt daran" / "Think about it" inv.№4844. Close-up: German soldier in helmet (profile), German submarine at sea, crew on board.

German soldiers walk along a country road.

A German military convoy passes.

Balloon in the sky.

A German convoy passes along the street of a ruined town.

Stills from the film: silhouettes of German soldiers standing in a trench are visible in the twilight.

North American United States.

Military parade.

American soldiers with the Stars and Stripes walk along the street.

American soldiers march in formation.

German soldiers are running to attack.

An oil storage facility is burning, black smoke rises into the sky, a seaplane flies against the background of black smoke.

Explosions in the field, German infantry is running to attack.

Smoke.

Cartoon: map of military operations, France.

Military operations in the Somme River area.

Stills from the film: barbed wire, German soldiers are running to attack, battlefield, explosions.

Russian soldiers in a trench, taking cover from an explosion.

German soldiers are running to attack, overcoming barbed wire.

Russian soldiers surrender.

Stills from the film: Field Marshal August von Mackensen, accompanied by German officers, gets into a car and drives away.

Cartoon: map of military operations Warsaw-Przemysl.

The offensive of German troops in Eastern Galicia (May-September 1915).

Battlefield, explosions.

Cartoon: map of military operations in the Champagne region.

Cartoon: map of military operations in the Grodno, Kovno, Riga region (Russian front).

German offensive in the Vilnius region.

Cartoon: map of military operations in the Verdun region.

French heavy gun, shot, explosion.

Feature film footage: German Landsturm soldiers in a trench, throwing grenades.

German soldiers firing rifles, explosion, clods of earth filling the trenches.

Cartoon: map of military operations, France.

Flash from explosions.

Map of military operations: German troops offensive on Warsaw.

Feature film footage: explosions, German soldiers running to attack.

Germany, Poland: bridge over river, monument, railway bridge, Gothic cathedral, barges floating on the river.

German military echelon passing by, carts on railway platforms, soldiers waving.

Echelons moving.

Stills from a feature film: a Cossack patrol.

Cossacks with pikes on horseback, one looking through binoculars.

Russian soldiers at a halt in front of an estate.

German generals in a trench, watching through binoculars.

Smoke from a shell exploding nearby.

An Austro-Hungarian gun.

Austro-Hungarian soldiers running to attack.

Narrow-gauge railway.

Mines with German soldiers in them.

German soldiers building wooden barracks.

English prisoners of war doing earthworks.

Loaded mines nearby.

A truck with a trailer passes along the road.

A German soldier stands on the side of the road.

A train passes along the narrow-gauge railway, with German soldiers in the mines.

A horse-drawn tram passes along the narrow-gauge railway, with German soldiers carrying a can.

A train with German soldiers.

German soldiers transport logs on a gun carriage.

A German sailor leads an elephant by the bridle, pushing a platform loaded with boards in front of him (1915, cameraman Albert Dowson).

German soldiers pass by, standing on carts.

German soldiers plough the land with a plough.

A German field bakery.

The baker takes out freshly baked bread.

Soldiers carry provisions out of the warehouse.

A German soldier repairs boots.

German soldiers line up.

German soldiers walk along the street of a ruined city with things in their hands, carts drive by.

German soldiers dry laundry by the fountain.

A German soldier lures a hen with chickens with food.

There is a piano in the street.

A German soldier plays the piano, others listen.

German soldiers dance in pairs, a military orchestra plays.

Soldiers stand in line at the Soldaten-kino movie theater.

Actors put on makeup.

A German field camp in the forest.

An actor plays a scene in front of the soldiers.

A soldier's orchestra.

A theatrical performance for soldiers.

An actor dressed as a woman performs for the soldiers.

German soldiers play cards while resting.

German soldiers walk along a city street.

Soldiers lead a ram on a rope.

A car drives along a city street, women and children walk by.

Stills from a feature film: German soldiers celebrate Christmas in a barracks.

A decorated Christmas tree, set tables, soldiers read letters, smoke, eat, talk, play the harmonica.

German soldiers sit in a trench.

Night, flares.

German soldiers in positions behind barbed wire.

Explosion, clouds of smoke.

A German soldier in a trench.

A German soldier in a dugout near a decorated Christmas tree, putting presents under the tree.

An officer enters the dugout, takes off his overcoat, opens a present.

NDP: “Alarm”.

German soldiers advance in the trench.

The officer leaves the dugout.

The soldiers finish their feast, quickly get dressed, run out of the barracks.

Explosion, smoke.

Soldiers in the trenches.

Rats are running around the tables in the barracks among the food.

Cartoon: explosions, NDP in fiery letters "VERDUN".

Cartoon: map of military operations - Fort Douaumont, Fort Vaux, Verdun.

Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, accompanied by German generals, talks to a German soldier.

Trucks drive along a mountain road, carrying gun barrels.

A German convoy loaded with military equipment drives along the street of a ruined city.

A German convoy, a truck, and carts drive along the road.

German soldiers in trucks.

German infantry marches along a country road.

Trucks drive along a city street, German soldiers march in formation.

Cartoon: map of military operations - Verdun, Reims, Metz.

Germany, frames from a feature film: a military echelon drives across a railway bridge over a river.

A peasant plows the land, takes off his hat in greeting.

A passenger train passes by, German soldiers wave their hands from the carriages.

Children run.

A locomotive passes by, children wave white handkerchiefs.

People stand on the railway platform, waving.

The train stops.

Sisters of mercy, an orderly with red cross armbands hand out bread, drinks, food to the soldiers.

The soldiers get into the carriages, the train departs.

Double exposure: a map of military operations - the Carpathians, Warsaw, Russia, the Russian front.

Stills from the film: Poland, a village.

A woman in an embroidered shirt takes off her underwear, German soldiers are sitting near a whitewashed hut.

German soldiers are talking to a peasant woman.

German soldiers are walking through a village.

Peasants.

Carts are passing by a train standing on the tracks and German soldiers are standing.

A German soldier and a peasant woman are sitting on a fence, having a nice conversation.

German soldiers are studying a map, chatting animatedly, laughing.

A car drives along a country road, General A. von Mackensen is sitting in it.

The general, accompanied by officers, approaches the table on which the maps are laid out, runs his finger over the map.

Cartoon: a map of military operations - Fort Douaumont, NDP in fiery letters "VERDEN".

German soldiers lead a wounded French soldier by the arms.

Types of positions: Trenches, communication trenches.

German soldiers pass by.

Flamethrower shot.

French soldiers lie down, throw grenades.

French gun crew, gun shot, French heavy gun, shot.

Battlefield, explosions.

French soldiers run to attack, German soldiers run to attack.

French soldier throws grenades.

German soldiers with an ambulance dog lie down in a trench.

German soldiers carry a wounded French prisoner of war.

French soldiers move out of the trenches, run to attack, corpses of French soldiers.

Battlefield, explosions.

German soldiers run to attack.

Film footage: German soldiers run to attack, jump off the rampart.

A wounded German soldier passes by, supporting his wounded arm.

German soldiers lead the wounded by the arms.

Stills from the film: a barracks, German soldiers laying a wounded man on bunks.

A French heavy gun, a gun crew, a shot, an explosion, a battlefield.

German soldiers are running to attack.

A machine-gun crew carries a machine gun.

German soldiers are running to attack, lie down.

German horse artillery, gun teams, explosions.

German soldiers are running to attack, overcoming a barbed wire fence.

French artillery.

A German soldier takes a grenade from the hands of a dead comrade, throws it.

Explosion.

French soldiers pull a gun out of the mud.

French horse artillery.

A German soldier covers his face in horror.

A French soldier raises his hands with a rifle.

Corpses in the trenches, a shot from a flamethrower.

A French soldier throws a grenade.

German soldiers are firing rifles, lie down.

A German soldier is trying to climb out of a trench.

A German soldier raises a bugle from a trench, an explosion, the soldier falls.

German soldiers run to the attack over corpses.

A German soldier throws a grenade into the observation slit of a pillbox.

A killed French machine gunner.

Explosion.

Cartoon: the Verdun fortress, Fort Douamont.

Shots from the film: an explosion at the casemate gates, NDP: Douamont.

German soldiers run to the attack, overcome barbed wire, a German officer raises his cane, gestures for the soldiers to attack.

German soldiers run to the attack, explosions.

German soldiers at a destroyed casemate of Fort Douamont.

Inside the casemate.

A French soldier walks with his hands behind his back along the gallery of the fort, a German soldier watches him from around the corner.

German soldiers capture a Frenchman, offer him a smoke, escort him.

Cartoon: Fort Douamont.

Chronicle: Crown Prince Wilhelm, accompanied by officers, communicates with soldiers.

Stills from the film: Fort Douaumont, casemates, view from the inside, German officers pass by.

Cartoon: frame from an aerial photograph – a photograph of the area around Fort Douaumont, the silhouette of an airplane flying by.

Chronicle: Emperor Wilhelm II, accompanied by officers, awards a German soldier, shakes his hand, claps him on the shoulder.

French officers stand at the entrance to the fortress casemate, chatting.

View of the ruined city.

A woman in the ruins.

NDP on the building: Hotel du commerce.

French soldiers in the ruins.

French positions.

Wounded French soldiers pass by.

French soldiers carry a box on a stick.

Cars drive along the city street, the French cavalry passes.

Parade of French troops in the field.

Marshal Joffre receives the parade.

The banner of the military unit.

Marshal Joffre passes by accompanied by generals, salutes.

French soldiers march along a country road.

French soldiers march along the streets of a ruined city.

Ruined clock tower, truck.

French soldiers march by.

French soldiers in positions, occupying trenches.

A shot from a French gun.

German soldiers in a trench, lie down, explosion.

Film footage: casemate of Fort Douamont.

German soldiers run out of the gate.

Explosion.

German soldiers charge, firing rifles, machine guns.

French soldiers charge, French gun, explosion.

German gun in a trench, explosion, earth burning, NDP: "Hell of Verdun".

Battlefield, explosions.

German soldiers in trenches, explosions.

German soldier throws down his rifle, dying German soldier.

A German soldier lifts a wounded comrade in a trench.

Double exposure: gun muzzles, explosions, German soldiers in the trenches.

Footage from a barracks, a German soldier gives a wounded man a drink from a flask.

Explosion.

German soldiers charge.

Double exposure: charge, guns fire.

French prisoners of war walk along a country road, carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher.

A German convoy passes by.

Footage from a German soldier dragging a wounded French soldier on his back.

Newsreel: wounded French prisoners of war walk along the road.

Orderlies load stretchers into an ambulance.

A column of French prisoners of war passes.

German soldiers hand out food to the French prisoners of war.

On the side of the road are broken ammunition carts, French prisoners of war walk along the road.

A panorama of French prisoners of war, Zouaves, and Moroccan riflemen.

Among them is a decorated non-commissioned officer.

French positions.

German prisoners of war pass by.

A French soldier rises from a trench, followed by a German officer with a bandaged head, who salutes them.

French trenches.

A French soldier escorts German prisoners of war.

French trenches.

German prisoners of war carry a wounded man on a stretcher.

French cavalrymen escort a column of German prisoners of war.

A prisoner of war camp: a fence surrounded by barbed wire; German prisoners of war are sitting on the ground.

A French soldier escorting.

German prisoners of war behind barbed wire.

German medics carry a wounded man on a stretcher.

German medics unload the wounded from an ambulance and transport them on a cart.

German medics loading stretchers with wounded into a van.

Narrow-gauge railway.

Trolleys equipped with two-tiered bunks.

German medics, wounded on bunks, flag with the emblem of the Red Cross.

Railway station, German soldiers at a freight car of a train.

The medics help a soldier get into the freight car.

Medical train.

German medics loading stretchers with wounded.

Trolleys covered with tarpaulin with the emblem of the Red Cross pass along a narrow-gauge railway.

A German gun installed in a breach in the wall.

The gun crew feeds shells.

The battlefield, explosions.

A German soldier in a trench, watches an explosion.

Explosions.

Repeated shots of the film: a man's hand with a watch, a German officer looking at his watch.

Panorama: German soldiers in a trench behind barbed wire, faces.

Repeated shots of the film: German soldiers at a destroyed casemate of Fort Douamont.

Inside the casemate.

A French soldier walks with his hands behind his back along the gallery of the fort, a German soldier watches him from around the corner.

German soldiers capture the Frenchman, offer him a cigarette, and escort him.

Cartoon: the Verdun fortress.

A French soldier throws a grenade, a German soldier fires a rifle, tries to get out of the trench.

German soldiers run to attack.

A German soldier provides assistance to a wounded man.

A French machine-gun crew.

A French soldier carries a machine gun on his shoulders.

A camouflaged French gun.

German soldiers in a trench.

Repeated footage of a German soldier with a bugle in a trench, helping a wounded man, German soldiers attacking, explosions.

Chronicle: German soldiers in a trench preparing to attack, climbing out of the trenches, running to attack.

Smoke, explosions.

A French gun: explosions in the forest among the trees.

Shots.

German soldiers running to attack, throwing grenades, lying down.

A French machine-gun crew, soldiers passing boxes of cartridges.

A shot from a flamethrower.

German soldiers running to attack.

French soldiers with flamethrowers in the trenches.

Corpses of French soldiers in the trenches.

Footage of the film: soldiers, raising their hands, jumping into the trenches.

German soldiers advancing in the trenches along communication trenches.

Flamethrower shot.

French soldiers throw grenades.

French gun, shot, explosions.

German soldiers run to attack.

Gun barrel, shots, explosions.

French heavy gun, gun crew, French sailors at the gun.

Smoke.

German soldier charges.

German soldiers with mess tins advance along the trenches, lie down, explosion.

German soldiers descend the rampart with rifles and grenades.

German soldier falls, struck by shrapnel.

French soldiers in the trenches.

Double exposure: explosion, gun barrel, clods of earth flying, German soldier cutting barbed wire, explosion, gun barrel, German soldiers charge, dead German officer falls.

Close-up: German soldier in helmet.

Telephone exchange, telephone operators.

German machine-gun crew, explosions, smoke.

Wounded German soldier on bunks.

Inverted frame.

Telephone operator soldier.

A German general at his desk in front of maps.

NDP: Brest-Litovsk, Radom, Warsaw.

A German lorry passes by.

Geographical maps.

Telegraph.

German lorries pass by on the road, soldiers march past.

Russian soldiers are rushing to the attack.

Telegram tape.

NDP: Brest-Litovsk.

Steam locomotives are moving along the railway.

American horse artillery, gun teams.

Close-up: soldiers' faces, gun shot, gas mask, faces, palms.

Signal flares illuminate positions fortified with barbed wire.

Searchlights.

Explosions, smoke.

German soldiers are rushing to the attack.

A ship at sea, shots, gun barrels, explosions.

Signal flares illuminate the area.

British soldiers are marching in the trenches.

A column of German soldiers is marching.

German soldiers in the trenches.

Telephone exchange.

French heavy gun.

A German soldier emerges from an underground shelter into the light.

His hand covers the frame.

Explosions.

A wounded German soldier crawls in a trench.

Negative: German soldiers lie down in a field, explosion.

Telephone exchange.

A French Renault tank drives across a field.

A military train.

A ship at sea.

German artillerymen in gas masks load a gun with chemical shells.

Airplanes in the sky.

A German machine-gun crew, soldiers lie down in a trench.

French Renault tanks in a field.

A warship firing.

A German Gotha heavy bomber.

Bomb bay: a suspended bomb.

A ship at sea, shots, bomb bay, an airplane dropping bombs.

Explosion.

A French Renault tank drives toward a burning tree.

Telegram tape.

Double exposure: gas mask, German soldiers carry a wounded man on a stretcher.

A crowd of Russian prisoners of war.

The breech of a gun closes, German soldiers unbutton the uniform on the chest of a dead man.

A dead German soldier in an underground shelter.

A face in a gas mask.

A German machine-gun crew.

A shot from a heavy gun.

German bread cards (brotcarte).

A German woman at the dining table, reading a letter.

Food cards.

A hand holds a cigar.

A box of cigars.

A dead soldier.

A laid table.

A disabled person at a military factory, at a machine.

Children naked to the waist.

Bottles of expensive drinks on the table.

A face (close-up), female hands sewing at a sewing machine.

A soldier in an underground shelter.

A woman's face.

Lines from a letter, a face (close-up).

A terrible figure depicting hunger, above a crowd of children.

The American cavalry galloping.

American horse artillery, horse-drawn gun teams.

Telegraph, telegram tape.

Horse-drawn convoy, carts, explosions, a general at his desk, gun barrels.

German horse artillery, horse teams.

French soldiers rushing to attack.